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Innovation Enterprise's Weekend update features news and analysis from across the world of tech from the past seven days including how robots are extending the scope of IoT applications, smart manufacturing and big data in government

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from the world of tech, as well as some fantastic contributions from our
community of tech and business experts. Below we present some of our most
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In his analysis, Eastwood remarked: "It
would be foolish to assert that robots and IoT applications cannot be combined
just because they happen to be designed for different purposes. IoT
applications which have little intelligence on their own, for instance, can be
bolstered by the inclusion of intelligent robots which are more autonomous and
capable of dealing with strange situations as they arise."

"TF.Text is designed to ease this problem
by providing ops to handle the preprocessing regularly found in text-based
models and other features useful for language modeling not provided by core
TensorFlow," Neale added.

Nathan Sykes took a deep dive into the world of smart manufacturing which focused on some of
the remarkable industrial IoT solutions from technology vendors. In his report,
Sykes ponders the benefits for manufacturers bringing their physical equipment
into the digital fold.

"Smart manufacturing begins with smart machinery," Sykes asserted. "Industry
4.0 provides lots of tools for manufacturers who want to reduce their
maintenance burdens and costs, while prolonging the useful lifetime of the
machines they depend on to manufacture and distribute their products."

The two companies agreed that Class A and
Class B common stock shares of Tableau would be exchanged for 1.103 shares of
Salesforce common stock, making the $15.7bn valuation the enterprise value of
the transaction based on Salesforce's average price as of June 7, 2019.

Salesforce co-CEO Keith Block said: "Data
is the foundation of every digital transformation, and the addition of Tableau
will accelerate our ability to deliver customer success by enabling a truly
unified and powerful view across all of a customer's data."

"By
viewing big data for the good it offers, we can change the scope of government
contracting from educational fronts to transportation hubs," said
Matthews. "It is time to embrace big data and the important role it can
play."